Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-10-17
PRISON DIRECTORS.
They Meet in Sacramento This Afternoon
and at Folsom Tonight.

PRlSON DIRECTORS.
They Meet in Sacramento This Afternoo,
and at Folsom Tonight.
Prison Directors Boggs and Sonnta.
came up from the Bay last evening ant
registered at the Golden Eagle. They STATED
TO reporter that there would be meetins
OF the Directors at The Governors Office
this afternoon for consultation regarding
the erection of the proposed additional
Jute works at San Quentin. This afternoon
at O'Clock they will take the train for Fol.
som, at which place they will hold tonight
their regular monthly meeting for the al.
lowing OF bills, salaries, etc, and the trans.
action OF other business which may prom.
erly come before them. Director Deylin is
in town. and Director Filcher will arrive
on the first train from Auburn Tomorrow
Director wilkins will not be present, hay.
ing gone to Humboldt county few DAYS
since.
THE NEW JCTR WORKS.
| The last Legislature made an appropria.
ton OF 100000 to pay for the purchase OF
additional jute machinery and the erection
OF buildings for the manufacture of iute
goods, and other expenses Immediately
| appertalnlng to the carrying out of the OBJ
lect OF the Act. Accordingly, the Prison
directors made an estimate of what was
necessary, prepared their plans and specifi-
cations cations and, desiring to get it done as
| cheaply as possible, to get the best and most
for their money, advertised for sealed pro-
| posals for sixty days. When the bids came
III and were acted upon, the whole
| amounted to $16S, 600, or IS 900 in excess of
the appropriation. When the specifications
were made out they were filed with the
Governor, and no alterations can be made
in them except by and with the consent of
the Governor, Secretary of State and State
treasurer. The protracted illness of Gov
ernor Bartlett delayed matters, and it is
now called TO the attention of Governor
Waterman. The
STATEMENT THAT WILL BE MADR
To the Governor and the two officials asso-
ciated with him on this committee, will be
in substance as follows: In the shutting
down of the furniture factory at San Quen-
tin there will be large amount of pulleys,
shatting, betting, etc, that can and will be
utilized in the construction of the ute
works, which the Directors put in the bill
OF expense at cost price, $4,000 They
claim that as it is State property, belonging
to that prison, that it should not be put
in as
AN ITEM OF COST
Again, when putting in the brick at S.
per thousand, they tackled on ST. so profits,
the brick costing the State only So so to
make them. By the use of the old pulleys
and betting, and putting in the bricks at
cost of manufacture, there being over a
million of them necessary, the $1,000 will
be wiped out and the work of building can
proceed. If this suits the Governor, Secre-
tary of State and State Treasurer, the papers
referred to will be so amended
CAPACITY OF THE JUrE MILLS.
The new works will be erected immedi-
ately west of the old ones and they will all
be under the same roof. Then the State
will have over 200 looms in operations,
which will give employment to all the
available labor at that prison. Director
Sonntag said he had every reason to believe
that grain bags next year would bring or
8 cents. In support of that statement he
said he knew of a sale of $50 900 bags de-
liver next July at 1t cents. When the
State gets the new machinery running, the
cost of the bags will be a cents, which will
| insure good margin of profit. He said
we can safely count on S35, 900 to $40,0 900
annual profit on our jute mills. Next year
! our profits will be at least $4,000. Bags
will go to cents, which leaves a clear
profit of 81 cents.
Mr.. Boggs said he thought that was a
pretty high figure, cents.
Mr.. Sonntag-rll bet you a new silk hat
that they will go to cents.
Mr.. Boggs-I'll bet the hat and throw in
pair of gloves that they will sell for less.
This State this year carries over 1900 600
bags, last year IS ,000,0 900. If we have a big
wheat crop next season they will bring a
good price, but we must take into consider
alton the possibilities of its being a dry
year. The bags used for wheat that goes
to Liverpool and foreign markets are re-
turned again free and sold for barley bags,
and many Of them are again used for wheat
No one can tell what they will be worth
next season.
Mr.. Sonntag said: "Mr. Boggs, you are
bear. You know all about the use of
wheat bags, and know also about their
cost. You also know that q Calcutta bag
is of but very little use after being in serv-
ice once. The jute is a vegetable matter
that rots very readily. The best bags used
on the Pacific coast are those made at San
Quentin. There are many reasons for this.
In the first place, we have new machinery
and the
BEST OF SKILLED LABOR
At the heads Of the departments. We buy
the best material, and find it the cheapest.
for many reasons. The convict, as a gem
eral thing is noted for his carelessness,
and would break so many threads
that his loom would be stopped half
of threads together The superiority of
the prison bags is now we'll known, and
they command premium over the Cal
cutta production. They can be stacked up
without liability of bursting, and require
less care in handling. The bags made at
the prison weigh more than the East India
ones by about four pounds to the 100. The
reputation of the prison product has be-
come so well established that the Directors
now put
BLUE STRIPE IN EACH BAG,
By which they are easily distinguished.
So far, the prison authorities have not been
able TO fill half their orders for grain bags
One day last week they refused an order for
the manufacture of 900 sugar bags The
capacity of the present works is l 1905
grain bags annually With the proposed
addition they will turn ont say 4, 100000
The works do not turn out that many grain
bags now because they are obliged to man.
ufacture other goods. The Directors have
| only $4,000 in the revolving fund to buy
stock with, and they must manufacture
such articles as are seasonable and that
meet with ready sale. As it is, the Direct
ors find it difficult at times to purchase
800 600 worth Of jute with only $4,000
| In order to keep their works running-snd
| they have never been shut down since they
| were started-they manufacture wool
bean, sugar, seed and other bags, hop cloth,
burlaps, fleece Irvine, etc, and keep the
cash rapidly revolving" in that revolving
| fund.
4 BASEBALL INCrDENT.-Y esterday after
! noon on the train returning from Snow
| fake Park, Thomas Moran and George r.
Barns became involved in quarrel Hot
words passed between the parties, blows
followed and pistols were drawn. Before
any damage was done the combatsnts
were disarmed. Both were arrested for
| disturbing the peace by officer Frazee,
Deputy Sheriff Lee and Deputy Constable
| Martin. During the melee one of the